On this day: January 1

Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, Ellis Island opens, the Rose Bowl becomes the first college bowl game, Hank Williams dies, and the Y2K panic fizzles out, all on this day.

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1942: The Declaration by United Nations, the basis of the modern United Nations, is signed by 26 nations during World War II.

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